Elevators are often taken for granted in modern buildings, yet they play a critical role in how efficiently people move within a structure. Whether in commercial offices, residential high-rises, ...

Office towers could become apartments. Support for the idea is building as pandemic vacancies coincide with the housing crunch. A Denver developer recently bought two downtown buildings with this in ...

Researchers in Canada have proposed using gravity-based energy storage in high-rise buildings, in combination with photovoltaic facades, small wind turbines, and lithium-ion batteries. Their modeling ...